An all time favorite Dylan song: "Things Have Changed" is a song from the film Wonder Boys, written and performed by Bob Dylan.The song was released as a single on May 1, 2000. "Things Have Changed" won the Academy Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. The director of Wonder Boys, Curtis …
The Pain of Commitment
Is commitment an emotion? Why is it we tend to associate commitment with our emotions? Enjoying a couple of minutes of quiet time this AM and pondering if commitment is a "feel good" thing or something else. Am I committed? What am I committed to? If I feel the "right way," then I can follow …
Audacious Hope
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -Mark Twain More thoughts from Monday Morning quiet/pontification time: So...how do people feel when they are around you? (Just wishing I had that cup of coffee in …
ONE: Notes from 25 March 2012 message….
below are the notes from a message at RAF Mildenhall's Chapel, 25 March...attempted to make them as readable as possible...apologies for the bumps and missteps below. INTRO: if I were to say to you Man in BLACK how many would know who I was talking about? Recently Sundie and I were discussing Johnny and June …
Pareto Principle or Spending Time With Your Best
More Neo-DeMarconian pontification after some morning reading... so no caffeine, need some help... Wikipedia states the Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Business-management consultant Joseph …
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SERENITY NOW!
Every once in a while... I NEED TO REVIEW! SERENITY NOW! God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. History Reinhold Niebuhr Though clearly circulating in oral form earlier, the earliest established date for a written form of …
ONE: What’s is it all about Bono?
As I sit here drinking a cup of coffee…listening to U2's ONE, I can't help but ponder it's meaning and preparing a message for next Sunday…. is ONE about love, a lack of love…something way bigger? World poverty, hunger, peace, religion, spirituality? I think back to the first time I listened to the track in …
The Lords of Discipline (a few quotes and thoughts)
"He who lives without discipline dies without honor." Icelandic Proverb It would appear that discipline is one of those things in that the minute you might believe you have it... you have lost it. It is a life's pursuit. I can not help but harken back to a quote attributed to Margaret Thatcher... something like... …
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Tangled Up in Blue: What was Bob thinking?
Bob Dylan has to be an all time favorite... thousands of great songs all with such deep and different meanings. Tangled Up in Blue is definitely in the personal top 10... just wanted to research a couple favorite Dylan tunes.. "Tangled Up in Blue" is one of the clearest examples of Dylan's attempts to write …
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1984 v. Brave New World
In October of 1949, a few months after the release of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, he received a fascinating letter from fellow author Aldous Huxley — a man who, 17 years previous, had seen his own nightmarish vision of society published, in the form of Brave New World. What begins as a letter …
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